Najwa al-Qattan

Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Najwa al-Qattan is associate professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, Georgetown and Harvard Universities. She has published on the Ottoman Muslim court, Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and the Great War.

November 2, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement that paved the way for the state of Israel. Were there any points during the past century when the Palestinians could have influenced the course of events for a different trajectory? Al-Shabaka’s historians and analysts identify six forks in the road where things might have gone differently, and draw lessons for the future.